The whites did not want to see the Aborigine in the same café with them. It was a tearoom where the whites often went to. The Aborigine could come there
if they wanted. They were not forbid by the owner to come, but they had to keep separate from other customer the whites. The room was being curtained off. The
whites did not want to see the Aborigine there. The whites would not come if they saw any Aborigine there. Seeing the Aborigine there could make the whites lost
their appetite, because they did not like to gather with the Aborigine who is the slave and the inferior.
11. Alice in the White
’s Society
Aborigines could not marry the whites. The whites wanted to keep Aborigines together, and if Alicehad wanted to marry white, well, that was no no
They wanted to keep all Aborigines together and let them die out. That was their plan. If we inter-married we would still be going on you see but
they wanted to brush us all out. I heard that too, you know, just through white people talking, saying they wanted a white Australia Nannup
1992:147.
The whites did not want to have a mix culture or identity between them and the Aborigine. They wanted to keep the Aborigines together, so that it would
not ruin the social-class of the whites. The Aborigines were inferior, while the whites were superior. The whites were the boss, while the Aborigines were the
slave. It was why the whites wanted to keep the Aborigine together. The whites did not want to have a low social-class by being with the Aborigines and marry
them.
12. Alice in the White Congregation
The minister did not like to sit with the colored people. If there is a white person in the same seat, he would usher them away.
The new minister was a South African and he didn‟t like the coloured people sitting in with the white congregation. See, we‟d go in, sit down
and make ourselves comfortable, but if there was a white person in the same seat he‟d come and usher them away to another phew Nannup 1992:
184.
The whites had a higher class than the Aborigine. The whites were the Aborigines‟ boss. The Aborigine was nothing for the whites. They were just slave.
They should not come and sit together with the whites because the congregation was usually a place where people held a meeting and shared their thoughts. The
minister did not want the Aborigine sat there because the Aborigine did not have the high position just like the whites there.
13. Alice and her Children on Sunday School
One day, it was coming up time for the Sunday school picnic for the kids. Alice‟s children really loved that picnic. The week before the picnic, the minister
said to Alice‟s child that she could not come to Sunday school next week. Her child was very upset and she wanted to know why she could not go. Alice went to
the minister and asked why her children could not go to the Sunday school, and the minister answered that he did not want to be responsible for looking after her
children.
